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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Cleveland: The Burrows Brothera Company, 1907. Limited Edition. 4to., 616pp.; G+; 3/4 bound in brown leather with broen cloth boards, spine paneled brown with gilt lettering, reads 'Heckwelder Narrative'; moderate bumping and wear to corners, front board has completely detached from spine; top edge of text block gilt, others deckled; of a limited edition of 160 copies, this is number 88; ex library, Catholic University of America. stamp on title page, pp 79, possibly others, stamp on title page covered with another stamp stating 'released by Catholic University of America', release stamp also on verso of title page; frontispiece protected with printed tissue guard; 10 illustrations, including frontispiece; brown endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in back warehouse with other oversized items. 1264472. FP New Rockville Stock.

Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, 1820. First edition. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Rebacked in half buckram with original boards. Front end papers missing. Front vinette pated down. From the collection and signed by Paul A. W. Wallace. An important association copy. 429 p. First American Frontier. Audience: General/trade. First edition. Sabin 31205; Streeter 1331; Howes H392; American Imprints 1556; Field 678. A good copy with wide margins. According to Field, "The narrative of this mission is a history of the noblest labors of the human race, for the civilization of a savage people. There could be no better guarantee of the value of a treatise on the American Indians, than the names of Rev. John Heckewelder and Peter S. Duponceau. " "Standard authority on the Moravian missions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc. " [Howes]. In 1999, Anthony F. C. Wallace completed transfer of his professional and personal papers to the Library of the American Philosophical Society, where they join a… Read More

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Early owner name on title page; moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Binding quite nice. Overall Very Good. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") bound in contemporary calf recently and sympathetically rebacked retaining the original gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; xii, 17-429, [3] pages, including the errata leaf. Portrait frontispiece of Moravian missionary David Zeisberger. FIELD 678: "History of the noblest labors of the human race, for the civilization of a savage people, and at the same time the record of the most horrible crime perpetrated by a civilized people turned savages"; HOWES H-392: "Standard authority on the Moravian missions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc."; SABIN 31205: "Full and undoubtedly faithful record of all the details of the Mission, its wonderful success, and its appalling destruction. It is at once an interesting story abounding in veritable incidents, and a valuable history, fortified by impregnable facts."

Cleveland : Burrows Bros. Co, 1/1/1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick royal quarto in slipcase. No. 36 of 130 copies. xi, 616 pages : frontis, 3 pl., mounted fasc. document, 2 fasc titles, 3 maps ; 33 cm. Bound in publishers 3/4 brown pigskin. Brown cloth boards. 4 raised bands. Gilt to spine. TEG. Fine binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Wear to slipcase. Slipcase lacking top of case. Clean, unmarked pages. Howes H380. <br> John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder was an American missionary for the Moravian Church. After a visit to Ohio with Christian F. Post, a colonial agent, in 1762, and temporary employment in the Moravian missions at Friedenshutten and Sheshequin, Pennsylvania, in 1765-1771, he entered, in the latter year, upon his actual career as an evangelist to the Indians, being appointed assistant to David Zeisberger, in Ohio, where he remained fifteen years. In 1792, at the request of the secretary of war, he accompanied Gen. Rufus Putnam to Post Vincennes to treat with the Indians.… Read More

8vo, period full calf, morocco label, engraved frontispiece portrait, xii, [17],-429 pp., plus errata leaf. Front hinge cracked, and partially detached, covers worn, foxing throughout, foxing heavy on page 153. Heckewelder spent forty years as a missionary among the Indians in the Ohio Valley. He was praised for his understanding of the Indian language and customs, but is also know for his account of the massacre of the Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten by troops lead by Col. David Williamson in 1782. Field describes Heckewelder’s efforts as the noblest of human endeavors, but adds that the murder of ninety men, women, and children by the troops represented the worst of human nature. This massacre lead to further violence, as other Indians retaliated against white troops, and the frontier would be desolated for ten years.

Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1907. Hardcover. Limited Edition of 160 numbered copies of which this is No. 71. 10.25 x 13.25in. xi. 616pp. + 7 plates and 3 maps. Publisher's three quarter calf over cloth boards with stamped decortion. Spine with 6 raised bands and gilt titling. [HOWES H392]. VERY GOOD in Fair slipcase. The book itself shows the spine tanned, hinges with typical slight loss from opening, handsome former owner bookplate at each paste-down, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and plates are clean and exceptionally unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The slipcase shows loss from all extremities, but remains sound. As pictured.